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INKEDblog takes you beneath the skin of today's tattoo culture. Our mission is to celebrate tattooing as a modern art form which incorporates art, fashion, style, and pop culture. While paying homage and respect to the past, we look to present a contemporary take on the present and future of skin art.
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Monday Oct 16, 2006
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Thursday Sep 21, 2006
Life Is Terrific
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Monday Sep 18, 2006
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Monday Sep 11, 2006
Heaven Awaits
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Monday Aug 28, 2006
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Monday Aug 21, 2006
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Friday Aug 18, 2006
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Monday Aug 07, 2006
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Friday Jul 28, 2006
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Monday Jul 24, 2006
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2006
Emancipate Yourself..
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Thursday Jul 13, 2006
Na$ty
Photo by Mark The Cobrasnake
Saturday Jul 08, 2006
Photo of the Day
Photo by Mr Yrland
Friday Jul 07, 2006
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Jul 03, 2006
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Monday Jun 26, 2006
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Thursday Jun 22, 2006
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Thursday Jun 15, 2006
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2006
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Thursday Jun 08, 2006
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Monday Jun 05, 2006
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Thursday Jun 01, 2006
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday May 30, 2006
Seen On The Streets of Amsterdam
Monday May 22, 2006
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Thursday May 18, 2006
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Wednesday May 17, 2006
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Tuesday May 16, 2006
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Monday May 15, 2006
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Thursday May 11, 2006
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Wednesday May 10, 2006
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2006
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Monday Mar 20, 2006
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2006
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Friday Mar 03, 2006
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Wednesday Mar 01, 2006
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2006
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Monday Feb 06, 2006
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Thursday Feb 02, 2006
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Monday Jan 30, 2006
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2006
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Tuesday Jan 17, 2006
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2006
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Monday Jan 09, 2006
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Tuesday Jan 03, 2006
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Tuesday Dec 27, 2005
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2005
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Thursday Dec 08, 2005
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Wednesday Dec 07, 2005
Baby Devil Tattoo
You can learn more about Numskull, who created the baby devil stencil here.
Monday Dec 05, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Nov 29, 2005
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Monday Nov 28, 2005
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2005
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Monday Nov 21, 2005
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Friday Nov 18, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Thursday Nov 17, 2005
One Man's Body - A Photo Essay by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
Monday Nov 14, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Friday Nov 11, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2005
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2005
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Monday Oct 31, 2005
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Wednesday Oct 19, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Oct 17, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Thursday Oct 13, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Wednesday Oct 05, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Oct 03, 2005
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"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Thursday Sep 29, 2005
Our Current Obsession - Finger Mustache Tattoos
A couple weeks back we featured the story behind Matthew Walton's finger mustache tattoo. What we didn't know at the time was just how prevalent finger mustache tattoos were. Yesterday, Needed.com did a terrific roundup on the diversity of mustache tattoos. Amongst our favorite photos are the tear drop finger tattoos featured this week on
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Photos from Modblog.
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Sep 27, 2005
Every BODY Has A Story - Alice
INKEDblog: What's your favorite tattoo?
Alice: My right arm piece. It has a lot of elements that I really like – skeletons, graves, bats, lightening bolts.
INKEDblog: What was your first tattoo?
Alice: A butterfly on my right leg. I liked it at the time (I was 16)
INKEDblog: How many tatt's do you have?
Alice: Um, I’m not sure. Like 15?
INKEDblog: What's the worst tattoo you've ever seen?
Alice: Any to do with the Tazmanian Devil or sports teams. We get a lot of that out here in Vegas.
INKEDblog: What do your tats signify to you?
Alice: Beautiful artwork
INKEDblog: In 30 years when you look at all your ink, how do you think you'll feel?
Alice: They have become a part of my body and a lot times I don't even notice them. I got them for me and don't expect anyone to notice them, and I don’t really care if they do.
INKEDblog: What do you plan on getting next?
Alice: Um... finishing my right sleeve hopefully.
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Sep 26, 2005
Justin Pelegano's Tattoo Stories - "Under Cover"
"Good luck finding Liberation’s first tattoo. It’s forever buried under a impressive cover-up. And from the sounds of it, for good reason.
“I had gotten my first tattoo at fifteen, and the ‘artist’ butchered my arm….I don’t think he could spell ‘sterilization’, never mind practice it.”
Cover-up tattooing calls for a certain practicality on the part of the artist and a willingness to “go bigger” on the part of the client. And because hiding old ink is never an easy task it often means a hefty time commitment in the chair, sometimes spread over several sessions. A good cover-up artist is a patient visionary. Lucky for Liberation he found one in Mulysa Mayhem.
“I lived in Massachusetts at the time so it was hard for me to seek out a great artist because tattooing was illegal there. Everything was underground and you had to meet people by word of mouth. I found this artist named Mulysa Mayhem through a friend of mine... She saw the horrible tattoo on my arm and felt a great deal of sympathy for me [so] she offered to give me an excellent price on a cover-up. We needed something large so she showed me some books of artists she liked, and H.R. Geiger was one of them. The second I saw the book I knew I had to have his artwork on my body. I had never seen anything like it. It was so dark and sexual. I decided on a piece called ‘Guillotine’. I loved the dichotomy of the image which to me glorified both life and death, and it had this supernatural feel to it.”
After some twenty-four hours of work (spanning multiple sittings), all signs of the original butchery were gone. And Liberation was hooked. He revisited Mulysa for another Geiger tat – this one a Debby Harry portrait – and has since inked his body with homage to other favorite artists such as Frida Kahlo and David Wojmarowicz. “The reason I choose to get the tattoos over buying [their prints] is simple. These are mine. Nobody else can have them, not the way I do. And nobody can take them away from me. All of my tattoos are by artists I have felt a connection with in one way or another and…I can’t think of a better way to honor them than to have their work on my body. I wouldn’t trade [my tattoos] for anything. They are a road map of my life to this point. When I look at them I can tell you which friends I was hanging out with, what was going on in my life, and what music I was listening to.”
Eager to give credit where credit’s due, Liberation traces his map, and his passion for striking body art, right back to Massachusetts and that fateful cover-up. “Mulysa is one of the most talented and sincere artists I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I honestly can’t say enough great things about her.”
Check her out here.
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Friday Sep 23, 2005
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2005
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Rockabilly Tattoos
Today, writer Jessica Lund takes a look at the connections between tattoos and Rockabilly
Pin up girls… Gorgeous Cars… Cherries… Hearts…Rockabilly.
Rockabilly is a music style that started in the fifties as a conglomerate of bluegrass, blues, boogie woogie, and country music. Born out of the fertile rebel bosom of the American South, Rockabilly became not only a style of music, but also a distinct genre, an anti-culture that existed to be the antithesis of the hyper-rigid fifties.
Rockabilly as a fashion style has been around ever since, but like most fashions, it’s had up and down swings. Currently pretty damn hip, it’s not hard to find tough looking guys with greased back hair, and woman decked out in sexy vintage wear.
Movies like Grease and Cry Baby have kept the workin’ man Rockabilly image and its bad boy spirit alive, along with a generous helping of contemporary authentic Rockabilly bands.
Personally, my favorite Rockabilly band in Portland, OR is The Flapjacks. All these guys look like they walked out of prison an hour or so before the gig, but the music is tight, the upright bass excellent and the crowd, undeniably enthusiastic.
Vintage in style, Rockabilly tattoos are a combination of sailor tattoos and key elements of fifties fashion. From the sailor’s anchors, sparrows and pin-up girls, to the 1950’s iconic gorgeous cars and ironic red hearts, Rockabilly tattoos are what most people think of when asked to imagine a classic American tattoo. Nearly sixty years later, Rockabilly tattoos remain fresher than ever.
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Sep 19, 2005
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Thursday Sep 15, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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A Trip to Invisible NYC
Cat Hartwell sent us this report on Invisible NYC in the Lower East Side of New York:
Walking down Orchard Street I recently stumbled upon a little gem. Is it a gallery? Is it a tattoo shop? It’s both. Invisible NYC offers a minimalist art space that provides local artists a place to hang their work, but nestled away in the back of the gallery hide a couple of tattoo stations. After all, tats and art go together like cheese and crackers.
On September 8, Justine Reyes launched her show My Uncle Vinny which will be up until October 8th. Reyes has been following her family around with a camera for the last two years recording them with their personal belongings. Reyes has showed her other work at the 5th Annual Barcelona Festival of Contemporary Art, the Proyecto Circle at the 8th Havana Biennale in Cuba, and the exhibition Fragments of Contemporary Urban Experience which traveled from San Francisco City Hall to the Michaelis Gallery in South Africa. Her latest work, Mask Series, will be featured in the January edition of Le Book.
My Uncle Vinny focuses on the obvious, her uncle Vinny who looks like most of the guys you see lounging on the streets of Nolita sipping on lemonade and playing poker in the summertime. The series pairs large portraits of her uncle with smaller photographs of his collection of trinkets and toys.
My personal favorite item was the wooden sparrow tipped to lay on its side, but hey – this comes from a girl with two birds tattooed on her forearm. If you get a chance to stop by, it’s worth a look… and you may even find a new place to get your ink.
Justine Reyes
My Uncle Vinny
Sept 8 – Oct 8
Invisible NYC
148 Orchard Street
NYC
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2005
Miss Van's Tattooed Girls
We've been fans of the Barcelona based artist, Miss Van, for quite some time. If you are as well, you may have noticed that she's recently been adding tattoos to the girls in her work. If you're in New York, you can check out new work at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery:
Miss Van: Don't Be Shy
September 10 thru October 8
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9E New York, NY 10011 ph:212-243-3822
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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Monday Sep 12, 2005
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Friday Sep 09, 2005
"Seen At The Clubs" - Photos by Mark The Cobrasnake
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